Exhibition | Nathan Nhan | That All Just Happened
Nathan Nhan's work draws on the material history of ceramics, where vessel forms are imbued with stories as powerful narrative devices.
Exhibition | Mythica Ignota, Artefacts of the Oscillocene and Warawana Mythologies | Elliat Rich
Elliat Rich at Canberra Glassworks. Curated by Aimee Frodsham. Discover the rich material culture of this earth-orientated and relational society. A curated selection of everyday, iconographic and curious objects that provide insights into the other-ways of life on planet Earth. Mythica Ignota is on loan through the generous support of the The Rupertsberg Institute of Social Science.
Exhibition | Island Hopping | Jeffrey Sarmiento
Exhibition of work by Jeffrey Sarmiento at Canberra Glassworks exploring the potential of 3D printing and other glass making technologies.
Exhibition | Hiroe and Cornell Swen: Making a Creative Life
This exhibition celebrates two of Canberra's most influential ceramic and textiles artists, Hiroe Swen and the late Cornell Swen who, together, led a uniquely creative life in this region.
Exhibition | So-sei: glass installations | Akie Haga and Justine McLaren
In the installation, So-sei, artists Akie Haga and Justine McLaren present flameworked glass habitats for native Australian plants as if in the aftermath of bushfire.
Exhibition | How Soon is Now? | Bruce Reynolds
How Soon is Now? showcases contemporary artist and ANU alumnus, Bruce Reynolds and the evolution of his practice from collage to relief and sculpture over a number of decades, as well as his ongoing interest in the relationship between pattern, history and the built environment. Presented by Museums & Galleries Queensland.
Exhibition | Consolidate | Designcraft with Steve Van Ewyk
Designcraft’s cabinet makers have regenerated factory offcuts into new and unique designs.
Exhibition | Brutal Transformations | Lymesmith
Brutal Transformations: Regenerating Canberra’s Concrete Legacy by Lymesmith champions adaptive re-use of brutalist architecture, flipping the typically grey raw concrete into colour-saturated vibrant art works.
Exhibition | Above/Below | curated by Julie Ryder
Above/Below is a group exhibition by artists who are inspired by their love of ferns, fungi, lichens, liverworts, moss, hornworts and algae. The 30 works are a diverse range of media from textile art, botanical illustration, jewellery, photography, ceramics and mixed media. Each artist has studied and then interpreted a cryptogam for this exhibition.
Workshop (online) | Make Exceptional Work | Amy Kennedy
Regenerate your creative practice with artist and mentor Amy Kennedy.
Exhibition | Second Skin | University of Canberra
An exhibition of models and visualisations based on physical prototypes made from upcycled, bio-based, and low-carbon materials responding to the theme of Regenerate. With the anticipated rise in global temperatures and the increased risk of extreme climatic events, there is an urgent need to consider ways of making residential buildings more responsive and resilient towards climate change.
Talk | Growing up Modern: Alex Jelinek and Canberra's Round House
Professor of Art History, Roger Benjamin grew up in, and later restored, one of Canberra’s most iconic mid-century buildings – the Alex Jelinek designed Round House. In this talk, and the associated exhibition, we discover how the Round House came to be designed, built and made into a home.
Workshop | Redesign Your Neibourhood | Benavente Design Workshop
Belonging to Whom? redefines community engagement by inviting participants to discuss street ownership from emotional, legal, historical, and economic perspectives. Through collective-thinking workshops, we aim to gather visions for city regeneration by transforming designated street surfaces through speculative design.
Workshop | Creating storyboards | Valerie Kirk
Regenerate your approach to creative practice in a responsive, hands-on workshop with artist Valerie Kirk, at Mugga Mugga heritage site. Experiment with different media to create individual and group storyboards exploring place, history and time.
Workshop | Pressing Matters Plaster Relief with Bruce Reynolds
Join artist Bruce Reynolds and learn how to cast a low relief plaster piece from your own design. Carve your unique design in the negative which will then be a cast as a positive panel. Hand colouring techniques will be shared and the resulting sculpture can be hung.
Workshop | Visible Mending | Michele Grimston
In this workshop we will take a relaxed and meditative approach to creating – immersing ourselves in the powerful possibilities of regeneration that mending affords. Mending is so much more than just making do. Visible mending is a wonderful way to reduce our impact on the planet while expressing creativity and honouring the histories of the everyday objects that are closest to us.
Tour | Regenerative Garden Design | Gardens with Fleur
Fleur of Gardens with Fleur invites visitors to visit her garden and learn about regenerative garden design.
Talk | How Soon is Now? | Bruce Reynolds
Join Bruce Reynolds for a floor talk about his exhibition How Soon Is Now. Learn about the materials and process used by Reynolds in his exquisite cast relief works that invite audiences to consider the ancient in relation to the present.
Exhibition | Re-imagine: Proposals for New Ways of Living from Old Objects | The Auction Barn
This exhibition takes the theme of Craft + Design Canberra Festival ‘Regenerate’ to go a step further and support new material propositions for new ways of living, new relationships with the material world, and demonstrations of design thinking through making and remaking objects.
Workshop | Contemporary Craft Retreat
The Contemporary Craft Retreat is a community event, runs for 4 days and offers a variety of craft workshops.
Exhibition | Ikebana at CMAG | Multiple Artists
Joining Hiroe Swen, six contemporary artists, Annie Parnell, Lea Durie, Mahala Hill, Nathan Nhan, Isabelle Mackay-Sim and Cathy Zhang each create a group of ceramic vessels that can display flowers but challenge the idea of a vase. Sachie Terasaki, a skilled Ikebana artist and instructor will make Ikebana arrangements in direct response to the ceramic works.
Exhibition | Growing up Modern | Alex Jelinek and Canberra's Round House
Growing up Modern: Alex Jelinek and Canberra's Round House is a first-hand account of living in 1960s Canberra and the story of how one of Canberra's best loved examples of mid-century modern architecture, the Round House came to be designed, built and made into a home.
Exhibition | Hannah Gason | Shades of Shadows
In the exhibition Shades of Shadows, contemporary glass artist Hannah Gason continues her exploration of light and its ability to both articulate and create an illusion of space.
